A Constellation of Nurse Recognition Opportunities

Within a Magnet®-Recognized Organization University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California

Barbara Rickabaugh, MSN, RN, NE-BC, Center for Nursing Research

Contact: Barbara Rickabaugh brickabaugh@ucdavis.edu

Professional Governance Unit Based Practice Council (UBPC) All Here Days

Presentations: Nurses are invited guest speakers presenting

their projects to all other UBPC members.

Professional Governance Annual Celebration: 1 or 2-day

event where all UBPCs present posters displaying their most

successful project(s) to all nurses and other health care

providers. National conference posters, research results and

publications are also shared (total of approximately 70 posters).

Presentations

Performance Improvement

Research Nursing Grand Rounds: UC Davis nurses are invited to

formally present their original research to large groups and are

videotaped for CEU offerings for all nurses to view. They are

awarded with a lapel pin.

Conclusion: A rich, supportive environment that recognizes nurses

for their expertise, drive, accomplishments and

professional development is stimulating fertile ground

for motivating nurses to explore and improve their work

environment and patient outcomes.

Patient Care Services Year-End Report: Many articles are about the

work of nurses or are written by a nurse.

UC Davis Nurse: All articles are written by nurses in the quarterly

journal, consisting of opinion pieces, humanitarian efforts, and project

summaries.

Manuscripts: Nine articles were published by UC Davis nurses in

2014.

Authorship

Awards The DAISY Award – 136 extraordinary nurses have been recognized

since May 2003.

Good Catch Award – Quarterly awards, for several individual nurses,

are given by the Medication Error Reduction Committee.

Achievements

Mentorship Programs Nurse Residency Program: A formal, structured post-baccalaureate new graduate nurse residency program; consisting of

a series of learning and working experiences to facilitate the transition from school to professional practice. Fourteen

cohorts have entered the program (total = 283 nurses).

Rising Nurse Leaders Institute: A two year part time program of education and mentoring which prepares developing

nurse leaders to be effective and inspired agents of change in their work environment. Many graduates are leading and

shaping the future of nursing at UC Davis Health System.

Research Mentorship Program: The Center for Nursing Research Mentee/Mentorship Program is designed to provide

nurses with the support and skills necessary to conduct a research study in their area of interest. Nurses apply for selection

into this program and preference is given to projects that have potential to improve patient care.

ANCC & other Specialty Certification: Nurses who obtain specialty

certification are listed on a plaque in their unit and receive a monthly

stipend. (35.5% of direct care nurses as of July 2015)

UC Davis publically thanked all specialty nurses by name in the

Sacramento Bee in 2015 (full page article).

Process: The nurse recognition programs in place for UC Davis

Nurses are listed.

Management Nurse Managers may recognize their nurses’ outstanding work

spontaneously with a small denomination credit card gift.

Direct care nurses and Nurse Champions chair committees and

present projects and studies to Nursing Management Council as

invited guests.

UC Davis Nurse Author

Nursing Grand Rounds Presenter

HAI Annual Anniversary Award: A unit is awarded after 365

continuous days of nursing quality indicator infection free status.

Thirty five (35) individual or team presentations were given by

UC Davis nurses at professional conferences nationally and

internationally in 2014. Nurses are financially supported to

attend these conferences and present their accepted abstracts.

Nursing Excellence Nurse’s Week Celebration: Nurses are recognized formally by

their peers. They receive a lapel pin, certificate, and flowers at

a ceremony. Award categories are: Compassion & Compassion

in Nursing, Integrity of Nursing, Best Practices that Achieve

Optimal Outcomes, Relationship Based Care, Contributions to

Improving the Environment of Care.

Nurse Champions

Purpose: Recognition is especially important to nurses as they

move and improve throughout their careers within a

Magnet® recognized organization. A constellation of

recognition programs surrounds our nurses - all designed

to highlight extraordinary work, or a valiant effort.

Recognition may reinforce a nurse’s sense of worthiness,

value, and being respected.

Specialty Certification

The DAISY Award

Good Catch Award

Annual Poster Celebration

Nurse Residency Program

Rising Nurse Leaders Institute

Research Mentee

Professional Governance Committees

Conference Presentations

Special Recognition by Manager

Task Force Chairperson

Authorship

UC Davis Nurses are our Stars!!!

HAI Award

Nursing Excellence

A U.S. News & World Report best hospital in cancer, cardiology & heart surgery, ENT, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, neurology & neurosurgery, orthopaedics, pulmonology & urology